Women and rectal temperatures

I had my last one in a real medical setting about 6 years ago. I'm in the army and we were in the field..long story short we got stuck in freezing water and I got brought into the field hospital with mild hypothermia. I was in and out but I felt the medics pulling my pants off and taking down my panties. There was no rectal exam prior to..she just lubed it and stuck the probe up my bottom. They left me for a while to get warm and rest and another tech took my temp rectally again before they let me go. There was at least three people present the first time cause the rolled me on my side after taking my panties off

Sounds very interesting hagoddess 😃

I've never had a real RT taken. My GF is a nurse, and she understands why and how it feels good. So I get a nice surprise every few days. She gets enjoyment out of doing it and has asked me to take her RT too.

I didn't think it was done much anymore

I remember my last childhood rectal temp like it was yesterday--of course it was 40+ years ago. The nurse came in with an oral thermometer and my mother interjected that she should use a rectal. I hated it--then. 😃

As a child my temp was always taken rectally as well as home by my mum as at the doctors.

today it is not normal any more here in germany.

What a pitty!

Before the late 80's and 90's when mercury thermometers were common children were often given rectal temp out of fear they would bite or otherwise break the thermometer in their mouth and ingest mercury, breaking a thermometer with their bum while on the stomach would be virtually impossible. Now mercury thermometers are a thing of the past and digital ones usually even have flex-shafts. There is no more legitimate reason for poking the thermometer up the Bum.

In a word, "yes," and trust that this doesn't generate all sorts of weird assumptions or questions. It is the preferred method for my doctor in her practice and one that I accept because her care is excellent and this far surpasses how a temperature is taken.

I currently have my temp takeing rectally and I also take my roommate's that way as well. She is a nurse as well and we both just feel it is the most accurate method. We also find it to be a turn on as well....smiles.

Only in play situations, these days. The last time I had it taken rectally at the doctor's, I was 10. So almost 20 years ago. Though when the oral thermometer at home was broken, it was taken in my butt while growing up.

The drs surgery or the hospital never take rectal temps here anymore . I always take it Rectally myself at home .

It still happens in rare cases in hospitals, but thats very rare these days...

In my clinical environment we still monitor the patients temperature rectally by using a rectal temperature probe that remains in(this applies to both men and women). We are always trying to monitor their core temperature and rectal temperature has long been regarded as the gold standard in determining core temperature. However increasing we are using urinary catheters with a temperature sensor to monitor their temperature.

I had a rectal temp done recently in the ER. I went in for stomach pain, the doctor thought it might be appendix, and he asked the nurse to get a rectal temp. When she came in and told me to roll up on my side and move the gown aside, I admit it, I was excited. I watched over my shoulder as she lubricate the thermometer and I had that same tied up in knots feeling I got as a child, waiting for the insertion. It did NOT disappoint, , although the electronic thermometers do the job way too quickly.

The last time I had my temp taken rectally was during a visit to the ER and that was about 14 years ago. I was 23 at the time.

I take my own temp rectally. I used to sneak in the bathroom when I was younger, lock the door and slip in the thermometer.

As I've said before, I only take my temperature rectally. I keep a thermometer and a small jar of Vaseline in the drawer in my night table. Being as anal as I am, I enjoy it this way. When my partner is here we take each others this way.

Technology has taken most of the need and the "fun" out of docs and nurses taking a rectal temperature. LOL. However, in the privacy of our bedrooms, it can be a sensual oasis amid being stricken with a flu bug, migraine or other malady that sends us under the covers to rest. Is taking a rectal temperature between spouses or partners absolutely necessary with today's alternate methods? Probably not. But once in a while, small acts of caring and TLC when I'm down and feeling lousy are the gems of life. A little "play" in our lives while i'm down with a 102 fever even rekindled our closeness when my husband and I spent a month traveling in separate business orbits and hardly saw one another. (This was a few years ago.) Then one winter after I got home from 36 hours delayed in a snowed in airport, I got terribly sick. And from nearly a week leading up to Christmas, my husband and then teenage daughters made me rest and took charge of everything -- and I still remember that time with much love. PS. The acetaminophen suppositories helped too!

My wife does not recall having her temperature taken rectally after perhaps the age of 5. She has a vague recollection of laying on her stomach with the thermometer in the rear end. Then she was switched to oral. Keep in mind that these were the days of glass thermometer, with mercury, which had to be kept in the rectum or mouth for several minutes to register - and if they broke, say by dropping on a hard floor, it was a disaster because mercury is toxic and nearly impossible to pick up. So people were understandably reluctant to trust little children with them and preferred having the child on a bed with the thermometer safely in the rear end, I guess.

In my case, my mother believed that rectal temperatures were more accurate and thus it was the way for herself and her children. It's just that once we were deemed old enough (5 ?) we were asked to take our temperature ourselves, under the sheets.

Probably more women took their temperature rectally years ago, to track their ovulation, when trying to get pregnant. (or not). That was the only accepted birth control method specified by some religious groups. As far as women having a preference over men, for taking their temps. rectally, I would think that it's equally divided. If you surveyed the general population, you would probably find that most adults don't want their temp. taken rectally, and those under 30, may have never experienced it, outside of infancy.

JJM: There is also the examination of the cervical mucus flowing out of the vulva, it's "natural" so accepted contraceptive method. I guess one can combine it with the temperature...

Think of it: every morning or so, the woman would have to take her temperature rectally first, then... er... stick a finger in her vagina to check for mucus.

But yeah good remark, perhaps also from eras and countries where contraceptives were not socially accepted or even illegal.

A number of years ago, probably around 25 years ago, I was in the ER. I was pregnant and was cramping. Had a male nurse, and he insisted on taking my temp rectally. That is the only time I remember having my temp taken rectally since I was a small child.

My last rectal temp I was 12 years old in the doctors office. I was naked, not draped, on my stomach. I kept my head down on the exam table and my arms at my side, but I did raise my head once to look over my shoulder. I could see my bottom with the thermometer sticking out. I was there for stomach pain. After rt, I had to roll to my left side and pull my knees to my chest. The doctor lubed his finger and inserted it deep into my rectum. Later that day I had to get two enemas at home. I hated that day.

You can actually request a rectal thermometer. The doctor might find it to be unusual, but you could use some kind of reasoning concerning nausea. In all probability if the circumstances were right the doctor certainly would not argue with, but would be willing to honor your request.

You can actually request a rectal thermometer.

You can also request that they not charge you, or write you a script for morphine, I suspect you will be about as successful in any of those requests. The nurse who takes your vitals is not there to tickle your perv bone so to speak, and they are not going to waste time finding a rectal thermometer, and if necessary bringing in a chaperone so you can drop your drawers and waste another 3 minutes waiting for the thing to register. Just not going to happen.

The last time I was at a doctors I don't think the nurse spent more than 3 minutes introducing herself and taking all of my vitals. They have a lot of duties and helping give you a wet dream that night is not one of them.

In this day and age, if you want a thermometer shoved up your ass, and I am not saying that is a bad thing, post an ad and find a playmate.

I do not think this questionnaire site has been active since earlier in April 2016 but yes women still do get their temperatures rectally unlike the last post who wrote in disbelief. In all candor I have been amazed at what I have found male doctors doing this still as both as family practitioners and male OBGYN's in many parts of the country. North, South, East, and West, True it is not done as often as it once was on women but it still very much exists and is common and normative to their female patients.

Moreover the American Academy of Physicians determined in November of 2015 that this is the ONLY way for temperatures to be taken. Please read and NO I did not doctor this as this is found on WebMD.

http://www.webmd.com/news/20151116/rectal-thermometer-remains-gold-standard-for-spotting-fever

According to additional supporting evidence women should ONLY be temped this way in truth!

As I noted previously, I have received a RT during my exams and trust that the nurse is following doctor's preferences or orders. It always generates a feeling of intense self consciousness and vulnerability regardless of how I am positioned. It's hard not to notice the feeling of the KY and the process of insertion and then waiting for the temp to register. Yes, the electronic type thermometers are much faster and for me have a slightly different feel but the end result is the same, "There is something up my bottom."

Rectals are still done, but I sense they're very rare because of the technology. Only once in a medical setting since in my early 20s when I was being cared for at home by a visiting nurse, did I have rectal temps taken. I suffered a migraine while on vacation in Minnesota when we stopped at an urgent care. I was lying on on my side on an exam table, nauseated and gagging into a bucket. The nurse asked if I would allow her to take my temperature that way. I had a low grade fever. Lasted only 30 secs or so with battery probe. Not as sexy as my husband sometimes takes it as home!! He said the nurse took it again that way while I was there sleeping in a separate room after being given a "cocktail" injection in my behind. They let me stay and sleep for a few hours until I was better. Never felt the probe while asleep. My compliments to the people of Minnesota. They live up to their reputation of being nice. The nurse who took my rectal temperature apologized and could not have been more caring. The female doctor as well.

Well when we say "still" taken rectally....well...yeah, sorta. I've had a number of female friends in the past to whom RT was introduced as a fun, kinky thing to do. After the procedure was established in the relationship, whenever it was necessary to take a temp, it was done rectally, even if an ear, oral, or forehead would have been more convenient and less intrusive. We operated under the good ol' "RT is more accurate" fact. While it IS the most accurate, it is also the most fun...and we both knew that was the real reason behind it.

The last time I had my temperature taken rectally was in a hospital ER the reason for it was to get a core temp before going into surgery. 😃